The Importance of Numbers - with Tim Harford

1

Introduction

00:00 • 3min

2

How Important Are Numbers?

03:18 • 2min

3

How Did You Become an Economist?

05:25 • 4min

4

Communication, Communication, I've Got No Idea

09:41 • 2min

5

You Shouldn't Quit Economics

11:44 • 2min

6

What's Economics?

13:40 • 1min

7

What Did You Think You Were Going to Do?

15:08 • 6min

8

Are You Writing It Because You Love It?

20:49 • 3min

9

How Important Is It That People Have a Good Understanding of Numbers?

23:45 • 3min

10

Is Your Views on Climate Change Are Not Going to Change the Climate?

26:15 • 2min

11

We Could Improve the School Curriculum and Journalists Could Do a Better Job

28:17 • 2min

12

Mistakes Are Fun

30:43 • 5min

13

How to Make the World Add Up M Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers

35:45 • 3min

14

The Numbers Will Only Take You So Far

38:17 • 2min

15

How to Rewrite a Pandemic Book

40:15 • 2min

16

Do You Think It Makes It Easier or More Difficult?

42:13 • 2min

17

Do You Still Play Games?

44:23 • 3min